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Hurricane Harvey Permanent Recovery Efforts
July 18, 2018 - It is now 11 months since Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. For all practical purposed the temporary housing program has now shifted into permanent housing recovery. In June, HUD approved the GLO’s Action Plan for permanent...
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City of Houston Lifts Police Escort Requirement
June 14, 2018 - At midnight last night, June 13, TXDOT removed the permit restriction when transporting manufactured homes within the city limits of Houston. As we reported last Friday, TXDOT added the restriction because the City of Houston...
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City of Houston Requiring Police Escorts for MH
June 11, 2018 - Late last week TMHA became aware that the City of Houston has begun requiring police escorts when moving a manufactured home within the city limits. This began on June 1 when TXDOT added the permit...
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MHI Secures Major Legislative Victory with New Federal Law
May 30, 2018 - On May 24, President Trump signed into law S. 2155 – the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act. Stated simply, this is a big deal. Passing anything at the federal level is no...
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TMHA Submits Comments on GLO Action Plan for Harvey Relief
April 23, 2018 - On April 11 the General Land Office (GLO) published its State Action Plan detailing the distribution and eligible uses of $5.024 billion in Community Development Block Grants for Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) to assist Texas communities...
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TMHA Attends Federal Reserve Finding Shelter Conference
February 26, 2018 - On Friday, February 23, TMHA’s Executive Director, DJ Pendleton, and Vice-President of Operations, Rob Ripperda, attended the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ Finding Shelter – Affordability Squeeze in a Tight Texas Housing Market conference in...
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TMHA Submits Comment Letter to HUD
February 26, 2018 - Monday, February 26, TMHA’s Executive Director, DJ Pendleton, submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on behalf of TMHA. The comment letter was in response to HUD’s January...
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MHC Owner’s Legal Victory in El Paso
February 01, 2018 - The Texas Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso issued a ruling in favor of Joel Navar, a manufactured home community owner, against the County of El Paso. There are several issues and court decision...
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TMHA Modular Housing Task Force Testifies
February 01, 2018 - On Friday, January 26, the Industrialized Building Code Council met in Austin. Members of TMHA’s Modular Housing Task Force testified before the Council to express their deep concerns over the future of the residential modular...
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New Tax Law Brings 20 Percent Pass-Through Income Deduction to MH World
January 22, 2018 - Everyone is aware Congress passed a major tax bill right at the end of 2017. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 makes significant changes to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC). The broad highpoints...
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Texas Manufactured Homes Stand Up to Harvey
December 18, 2017 - On August 24, 2017 Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane. Wind speeds clocked at 130 mph were recorded in Rockport. The storm dropped more than 60 inches of...
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Hurricane Harvey Recovery Update
October 11, 2017 - TMHA continues to be busy in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Last week there were multiple House committee hearings in Houston regarding Harvey and the recovery. Next week the Senate will take up Harvey in...
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Recovery for Hurricane Harvey Still Forefront
September 05, 2017 - TMHA has and will continue to work with all our resources to help in the recovery efforts following the unprecedented destruction of Hurricane Harvey. Still very much in our thoughts and prayers are our family,...
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H.B. 2019 and S.B. 1248 Now Law of the Land
September 05, 2017 - Last Friday the vast majority of legislation passed into law in the 2019 Texas Legislative Session became effective. Specifically, for our industry were the two TMHA supported bills - H.B. 2019 and S.B. 1248. H.B....
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TMHA's MH Communities of Texas List
July 27, 2017 - TMHA is pleased to announce the release of our MH Communities of Texas Listto all current members. The list includes the names and address for the locations of 2,458 communities with links to each property...
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The Tale of S.B. 1248
July 26, 2017 - Come all, gather around the camp fire. Grab your smores and prepare yourself for the tale of how S.B. 1248 was passed into law. I warn you at times this is a harrowing tale, but...
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85th Recap: Landlord Tenant
June 27, 2017 - There were several bills that made it all the way through the legislature and Governor Abbott signed into law impacting various areas of general landlord tenant law. S.B. 873directly impacts submetering utilities in an apartment...
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TMHA's 85th Session Recap
June 27, 2017 - Memorial Day marked the end of the 2017 Texas Legislative Session. The session that began 140 days earlier was certainly one for the ages. Conflict and compromise, hurt feelings and shared jubilation, celebratory high-fives and...
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A Modern Day Catch 22: The Dog, The Regulator, and The Insurance Company
February 13, 2017 - Dogs are appearing more in public these days. Even large dogs are now regularly seen in upscale hotels, restaurants, and the passenger compartment of airplanes. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Housing...
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Texas Court of Appeals Eighth District Rules on Proper Remedy for Non-payment
January 30, 2017 - Summary Court rules that when a manufactured home is personal property, which all are by default unless properly converted to real property, the remedy for non-payment of a promissory note is not an eviction. Also,...